For the enslaved Africans, music – rhythm in particular – became a tool of communication about their conditions. Later, it laid the foundation for spirituals and gospel songs.
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Imagine a collaboratively-designed smartphone app that could provide cues to an autistic individual – about the emotional state of people they are communicating with.
CBC and NBC’s theme music that fills our ears before and after commercials and quietly accompanies intimate athlete profiles can actually have an impact on the way we view sports.
Developers will now be responsible for dealing with noise issues from nearby music venues – but it will take real community activism to prevent closures.
Scientists are beginning to understand why certain drugs and musical genres are natural partners.
A.B. Original made waves in 2017, but Indigenous hip hop has flourished since the 1980s.
Listeners often describe the music presented at Tasmania’s Mofo festival as ‘weird’. But to do so sells the experience short.
Number crunching the Hottest 100 votes produces fascinating insights into shifting musical tastes and poses the question: why was 1997 such a great year for music?
Tim Rogers has threatened to take legal action after one of his songs was included in Cory Bernardi’s conservative Australia Day playlist. Rogers’s case rests on obscure legal provisions known as moral rights.
Folk’s emphasis on authenticity and community has renewed appeal in today’s beard-friendly, organic-appreciating culture.
A voyage through the Arctic inspires a composer to create music that expresses wonder, loss, discovery and culture.
Female jazz musicians are taking a stand against entrenched sexism within the genre.
Between Music’s AquaSonic puts five musicians in tanks of water. It is an hour of evocative new sounds and striking visuals.
The tradition of carol singing at Christmas appears to be going through a revival and it’s bringing communities together.
If you find yourself humming White Christmas this year don’t worry … you’re not alone – and the science of earworms suggests why.
Heavy metal music was traditionally associated with white, working class masculinity. But the genre has diversified - with many subgenres -
and now embraces causes ranging from whale protection to labour conditions.
Eminem is back and raging at Donald Trump - but for once the president has not retaliated. Maybe Slim Shady is just a bit too much like his core supporters.
Johnny Hallyday was more than a music icon, he was a cultural symbol for the French lower and the middle classes. In his death he reconciled the country with the term popular culture.
Miles Davis’s 1971 album A Tribute to Jack Johnson sits uneasily within both jazz and rock genres, but its indefinable nature should be celebrated.
A meteorologist and a music technologist team up to turn the data from tropical storms into musical graphs.
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